FIFA has apologised for displaying a map during the qualifying draw for the 2026 World Cup that excluded Crimea from Ukraine's territory, which Kyiv had criticised as an "unacceptable error".

ZURICH (AP) — FIFA apologized to the Ukrainian soccer federation for displaying a map during its World Cup qualifying draw that excluded Russia-occupied Crimea from the country’s territory.

FIFA, soccer's world governing body, is facing backlash over a map it showed of Ukraine. The map appeared to show Ukraine without Crimea as part of it. A spokesperson for Ukraine's Foreign ...

A map shown during the draw for the 2026 Fifa World Cup has been criticised by Ukraine as an "unacceptable error" after it appeared to exclude Crimea as part of the country. The graphic - showing ...

Russian ex-world chess champion Garry Kasparov ... Google, which also produces a popular Maps app, also shows Crimea as belonging to Russia when viewed from the country. The changes happened ...

MOSCOW, February 7. /TASS/. US Internet company Google has vowed that the situation with incorrect display of the Russian region of Crimea on its maps will be settled soon, Chairman of the ...